Injury Characteristics and Predisposing Effects of Various Outdoor Traumatic Situations in Children and Adolescents

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BACKGROUD: Many studies have reported injury characteristics of individual traumatic situations. However, a comparative analysis of specific risks is meaningful to better understand injury characteristics and help establish injury-prevention measures. This study was conducted to investigate and compare injury characteristics in children and adolescents by various outdoor traumatic situations.

METHODS: Outdoor traumatic situations were determined and classified into physical activity-related injury (n = 3,983) and pedestrian (n = 784) and passenger (n = 1,757) injuries in traffic accidents. Home injury (n = 16,121) was used as the control group. Then, the characteristics of each outdoor trauma were compared with 1:1 matched indoor trauma (among home injuries); each outdoor traumatic situation's predisposing risk for the injured body part, injury type, and injury severity were analyzed; and changes by age of frequency ranking among physical activity-related injuries were investigated.

RESULTS: Outdoor trauma showed higher risks for limb injuries (injured body part), fracture and muscle/tendon injuries (injury type), and severe injuries (severity) than indoor trauma. Various outdoor traumatic situations presented different predisposing effects on injury characteristics. Among physical activity-related injuries, bicycle injury was commonest across all ages, and playing activities were common causes for injury for individuals of age < 9 years, whereas sports activities overwhelmed the common causes thereafter.

CONCLUSIONS: The findings would help to better understand the specific injury risk of various outdoor traumatic situations and may potentially facilitate the establishment of more effective injury-prevention measures.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Clinics in orthopedic surgery - 13(2021), 3 vom: 01. Sept., Seite 423-435

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hwang, Il-Yeong [VerfasserIn]
Park, Jinhee [VerfasserIn]
Park, Soo-Sung [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Jinseok [VerfasserIn]
Kang, Michael Seungcheol [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adolescent
Children
Comparative Study
Journal Article
Physical activity
Traffic accident
Trauma

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 03.12.2021

Date Revised 26.04.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.4055/cios20242

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM330270567